blues du jour

on my way to volt in uppsala. something will emerge..

carsten nicolai made an awesome performance.

there´s just so many attention drawing things in the world

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to the one and only.

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i read that over the last 11 years 600 new species have been found on madagaskar even though only 10% remains of the original rainforest. because of this most of them are endangered. imagine how many species were extinct before they were even discovered. and today greenpeace is directing a campaign against mattel for having barbie wrapped up in paper delivered by a company heavily involved in cutting down rainforests. please do what you can to support the living space for this guy:

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emptied the freezer and found some yummies, still good for a late night snack.

another beauteous pre-summer day in stklm. supposedly our national day, celebrated in commemoration of gustav vasa elected king in 1523. influential sovereign. funky hair cut.

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pic-nic recording at beckholmen.

not been there, haven´t done that. the whole area in general and istanbul in particular just appears to be one of these exotically evocative places on the planet.

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thanks for excellent playing on the soprano johan. you are a bloody genius.

care for a swedish pizza in KL?

an establishment found in the great city of kuala lumpur. according to nadiah nothing on that sign makes any sense (apart from the colours). can you but dig?

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last night as i was biking my way through the night, contemptuously passing the red lights of an empty street crossing, a police van pulled me over and the serious gentlemen inside said “naughty naughty, but we´ll let you off the hook for this time”, thereby saving me a fine of 1500 kronor (€150). thank you universe.

after spending my breakfast with hal and polly jean i got stuck with a riff from one of her songs. it turned into this:

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loop from ‘the pocket knife’, ‘uh huh her‘, 2004. thanks ms harvey.

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it´s been a long day, i´m exhausted and i think this recording is as messy as i feel. but in there somewhere you´ll detect the sound of a conservatory yamaha grand.

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(another iPhone field recording)

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percussion loop by alex van heerden from the EHP-project